Haha, I was just about to post this! :) I really want to write an essay logically refuting her purported atheism. I want to prove that saying she is not an atheist is not just a "No True Scotsman" fallacy because so many of her statements fundamentally contradict the basic premise of atheism.

Jānis is right. Not all atheists come to atheism by way of honesty and critical inquiry. And there are too many atheists who enjoy pandering to the religious. Look at Chris Mooney, for example, and the majority of the Accommodationist movement.

My reason for saying that she is not an atheist mostly lies in her later comments during the Bill Maher interview, although I have seen hints of the contradiction in other segments. Maher asks her if she thinks that religious people are delusional, to which she emphatically responds that she knows many "smart" religious people. Maher attempts to make the distinction that, although smart, these people are still delusional in regards to their religious beliefs. Cupp remains insistent that these people are not delusional. I wish that Maher had forced her to elaborate, but the interview jumped topics shortly after.

Basically, my point is that she cannot logically claim to be an atheist if she does not think that religious beliefs are delusions. If she does not think that religious beliefs are delusions, I think that she is necessarily inferring that these assertions are justified. She may say, "I don't believe in God," but she also says that she does not think that people who do believe in God are delusional. A delusion is a false belief. Because Cupp will not identify religious beliefs as delusions, she is then saying that those beliefs are not false.

Maybe I'm making a leap in logic? I guess I just see her reluctance to label religious beliefs as delusions as tantamount to saying that those beliefs are true; I think that saying that a belief about X is true is simply a semantic rearrangement of the sentiment of "I believe X." Maybe she just doesn't understand the meaning of the word "delusional," or perhaps I am misusing the term myself.